Marxist theory
Why Marx’s theory of value is of value to workers today: Commodities, fetishism and labour-power
Karl Marx’s theory of value is relevant not only to understanding commodity exchange but why production for profit conflicts with human needs, explains Raju J Das.
Marxism, Russian imperialism and social forces
Replying to Alex Callinicos, Simon Pirani looks at what the Ukraine war tells us about imperialism today and the need to incorporate class struggle and other forms of social change into our analysis.
The left and ecology: An increasingly necessary relationship
Historically, the left relegated environmental demands, prioritising the capital-labour conflict over the capital-nature conflict. Today this is unsustainable: class struggles can no longer be separated from ecological struggles, contends Maristella Svampa.
Geopolitical fractures and the Marxist critique of imperialism
Alex Callinicos shows how the Marxist critique of imperialism can encompass aspects of the present conjuncture that liberalism and realism cannot account for, above all, the genocide in Gaza and fracturing of the ‘global West’.
Artificial Intelligence: The hype, the dangers and the resistance
Marty Hart-Landsberg cuts through the fog of AI hype to outline some of the dangers we face from AI use and highlight avenues of effective resistance.
‘Capital’ Volume 1: Themes from Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology’
Jason Devine contends that Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Mind’ was the foundation for both Marx’s first major writing and his initial foray into a dialectical critique of political economy.
(Video) Kevin B. Anderson on ‘The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads’
Kevin B. Anderson discusses his book ‘The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads,’ which analyses the late Karl Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism.
Ian Angus on capitalism, ecosocialism and metabolic rifts
Ian Angus discusses his latest book ‘Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System’.
(Video) Why socialists must understand metabolic rifts
Ian Angus speaking at the Canadian launch of “Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System”.
Ana Cristina Carvalhaes argues for a non-dogmatic theory of imperialism, which incorporates ecology, understands Trump’s aggressive neo-colonialist shift and recognises sub-imperialist countries.
Yanis Varoufakis’s ‘Technofeudalism’: A review by Boris Kagarlitsky
Writing from prison, Boris Kagarlitsky engages with Yanis Varoufakis’s account of the transformations that have taken place in the economy and society as a result of new technologies.
Eric Toussaint looks at the great public debate on the nature of the economy that occurred after the 1959 Cuban revolution, involving Ernesto Che Guevara, Alberto Mora, Ernest Mandel, and Charles Bettelheim.